Gupta Brahmi, script, 44, 46, 50, 71
Gupta empire, 73, 89, 91, 153, 162
Gurkhas, 39, 191, 200
Gwalior, 22, 79, 129–30, 139–41, 146, 193, 196
Halebid, 118, 119–20, 177
Halhed, Nathaniel, 24, 29
Harappa, 165, 166, 167, 170, 171–2, 174
Harrington, J., 45
Harsha, King, 73
Hastings, Warren, Gov.-Gen., 22, 23, 24, 25, 45, 76
Havell, Ernest, 96, 105–9, 116, 121–3, 125–30, 146, 155–60, 172
Heber, Bishop R., 40, 112, 133, 134,
135, 143–4, 192, 194, 209
Hickey, Wm., 19
Himalayas, 39, 188–91, 198, 200
Hodges, Wm., 22, 40, 143
Hodgson, B. H., 48, 55, 57, 67–9, 182, 198–200, 201–4, 208, 209, 210
Hooker, Sir J. D., 207, 208
Hsuan Tsang, 73, 74, 80–1, 122, 165
Hughli, R., 21, 34
Humayun, emperor, 126, 132, 147
Hyderabad, 148, 154, 179, 186
Indian Mutiny, 80, 136–7, 138, 140
Indus Valley civilization, 165–74
Islamic influences, 112, 122–8, 156
Itimad-ud-Daula, tomb of, 142, 147
Jainism, 66, 102, 116, 124, 127, 140, 146, 161, 178–9, 182, 196–8
Jaipur, 193, 195
Jehangir, emperor, 139, 146, 147, 158
Jerdon, Dr T. C., 205–6
Jodhpur, 129–30, 193, 195
Jogeshwar, 41
Jones, Sir John, 138
Jones, Sir William, 19–38, 39, 45, 46, 50, 66, 75, 103, 175, 190, 202, 203, 206
Kalidasa, 32–3, 48, 91
Kanchipuram, 117, 146
Kanheri, 41, 42
Kanishka, King, 94, 104
Karli, 42, 43
Kashmir, 39, 78, 91, 208
Kathmandu, 48, 67, 199–200
Keith, Maj., 141
Khajuraho, 14, 40, 81, 98–101, 108, 109, 120–1, 146, 176
Kharosthi, script, 90, 91, 164
Khizrabad, 56
Khyber Pass, 62
Kincaid, Gen., 86
Kipling, R., 144
Kirkpatrick, Wm., 190
Kittoe, Lieut. M., 58, 59–60, 78
Konarak, 100, 108, 146
Koros,
A. Czoma de, 68–9, 71
Krishnagar, 29–30, 31
Kushan empire, 90, 94, 96
Kutila script, 44–5
Ladakh, 66, 68, 78
Lahore, 146
Lambton, Wm., 182–7
Lauriya Nandangarh, pillar, 49, 57
Leitner, Dr G., 93
Lothal, 169
Lutyens, Sir E., 130
Lytton, Lord, Viceroy, 142
Macaulay, T. B., Lord, 77–8, 111, 121
Mackenzie, Col. Colin, 179–82
Maddock, H., 69, 86
Madras, 19, 20, 42, 62, 108, 181,
183, 185
Madurai, 117
Mahabalipuram, 42–3, 67, 108, 117–8
Mahabharatha,
25, 45
Mahmud of Ghazni, sultan, 102, 111
Mandu, 146
Manikyala,
stupa, 69,
87
Mardan, 97
Markham, Sir Clements, 154, 189, 209
Marshall, John, 28, 43, 176, 189, 198, 202
Marshall, Sir John H., 96–7, 145–7, 154, 155, 159, 166–74
Masar, 82
Masson, Charles, 88–9, 90, 165, 210
Mathura, 48, 74, 82, 92, 102–4, 105, 106,
210
Mauryan empire, 54, 89, 90
Megasthenes, 35–6, 62, 73
Metcalfe, Sir Thomas, 136
Mill, James, 76
Mill, Revd W. H., 47, 48
Moghul empire, 40, 125–8, 132–4, 146–7, 156, 157–8, 201
Mohenjo-daro, 166–74
Montpezir, 41
Moorcroft, Wm., 68
Muller, Prof. Max., 38
Mumtaz Mahal, empress, 126
Mysore, 40, 57, 118, 177–8, 182
Mysore Survey, 177–8, 180
Nadia, 29
Nadir Shah, king, 137
Nagpur,
83, 187
Narwar, palaces, 131–2
Nepal, 39, 48, 66, 67–8, 189, 190–1, 198–200, 208, 209
Orchha, palaces, 129–30, 161
Orissa, 47, 58, 62, 112, 121
Orsini, Count, 154
Pali, script, 52
Parasnath, 196
Pataliputra, 35–6, 62, 67, 91
Patna, 35–6
Peshawar, 57, 90, 93
Pondicherry, 185
Poona, 40
Portuguese, 24, 41
Porus, king, 43
Postans, Lieut., 60–1
Postans, Mrs, 60–1, 144
Prinsep,
James, 39, 46–61, 70, 71, 75, 78, 87, 89, 90, 92, 151, 176, 188, 210
Ptolemy, 59, 61, 62
Puri, 121
Qutb Minar, 116, 123–4, 133, 134, 135–6
Rajaona, 82
Rajasthan, 40, 161, 168, 193–6
Rajatarangini, 33
Rajputs, 87, 101, 128–30, 131, 140, 158, 160–1, 193–6
Ralph, Mr, 151–3, 161
Ramayana,
119, 197
Ramlochand, 29
Ranjit Singh, 69, 75, 76–7, 88
Rennell, James, 35
Roberts, Emma, 144
Rothenstein, Sir Wm., 105, 159, 160
Rousselet, Louis, 140–1
Roxburgh, Wm., 206–7
Royal Asiatic Society, London, 113, 153
Royle, John F., 208, 209
Safdar Jang, tomb of, 135
Saharanpur, 208, 209
Salsette, 41
Salt, Henry, 41
Samudragupta, emperor, 47, 48
Sanchi, 51, 52, 57, 64–7, 69, 79, 84, 85, 86, 91, 114
Sanskrit, 24–5, 29–33, 37, 38, 45, 48, 52, 71, 77, 91, 164
Sarnath, 48, 70,
72, 74, 75
Sassaram, 115
Scythians, 90
Seleucus Nicator, emperor, 35–6
Shahbazgarhi, rock inscription, 90
Shan Jehan, emperor, 125, 126–7, 139, 142
Sind, 166
Siwaliks, 210
Smith, Capt. E., 51, 57
Smith, Maj. R., 51, 133–4, 148
Smith, Vincent, 95–6, 157, 172
Somnath, 111
Somnathpur, 118, 119
Son R., 36
Sravana Belgola, 178–9, 196
Stacy, Col., 51, 92, 93, 95, 210
Strachey, Sir J.,
142
Sultanganj, 82
Survey of India, 176–91
Swat, 93, 94
Taj Mahal, 22, 40, 43, 112, 126–7, 142–4, 147
Tanjore, 117, 185–6
Taxila, 82, 91, 96–7
Taylor, Bayard, 144
Terry, Edward, 201
Thomson, Thomas, 208
Thurston, Edgar, 198
Tibet, 66, 68, 190, 208
Tigowa, 82
Tipu Sultan of Mysore, 39, 76, 176, 180
Tiwar, 82
Tod, Col. James, 58–9, 87, 127, 182, 192–8
Tughlakabad, 124–5, 133
Tughluk Shah, Sultan, 124–5, 126, 146
Tumour, George, 53
Twining, Thomas, 15, 34, 132, 133, 143, 147, 156
Udaipur, 130, 193, 194, 195
Valentia, Lord, 41, 42
Ventura, Gen., 69–70, 87, 88
Vijayanagar, 128, 146
Vikramaditya, king, 33
Wallich, Nathaniel, 207, 209–10
Waugh, Andrew, 189, 191
Wellesley, Sir Arthur, later Duke of Wellington, 176, 178, 179–80, 182–3, 202
Wellesley, Richard,
Lord
Mornington, Gov.-Gen., 177, 202
Westmacott, Prof., 104
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 75, 169, 174
Wilford, Lieut. F., 45–6, 66
Wilkins, Charles, 24, 25, 28, 29, 44, 45, 46, 47
Wilson, H. H., 47, 50, 73
1765 East India Company granted
diwan
of Bengal
1774 Warren Hastings first Governor-General
1783 Mackenzie arrives in Madras. Jones arrives in Calcutta
1784 Asiatic Society of Bengal founded
1786 Calcutta Botanical Garden founded
1790 Third Mysore War. Twining’s travels
1793 Roxburgh arrives in Calcutta
1794 Jones dies
1797 Wellesley Governor-General
1798 Fourth Mysore
War
1800 Mysore Survey – Buchanan, Mackenzie and Lambton take the field
1803 Maratha War; acquisition of Delhi and Agra
1806 Tod’s first visit to Udaipur. Salt and Valentia visit Salsette caves
1807 Buchanan begins survey of Bengal and Bihar
1810 Lambton completes trig survey of south. Buchanan at Boddh Gaya
1813 Wallich superintendent of Calcutta Botanical Garden
1816 Colebrooke declares
Himalayas the highest in world
1817 Tod returns to Rajasthan
1819 Prinsep arrives in India. Fell visits Sanchi. Dangerfield discovers Bagh. Franklin discovers Khajuraho
1820 Hodgson posted to Kathmandhu
1822 De Koros in Himalayas. Tod visits Abu and Girnar
1823 Everest succeeds Lambton as Superintendent of GTS
1824 Alexander visits Ajanta
1825 Bishop Heber begins tour of India
1830 Ventura
opens Manikyala
stupa
1833 Masson discovers coins in Begram. Hodgson’s report on Ashoka pillars published
1834 Fergusson tours north India
1835 Macaulay’s Minute. Cunningham opens Dhamekh
stupa
1836 Publication of Fa Hsien. Gandhara sculpture found at Mathura. Ralph/Gresley report
ON
Ajanta. Kittoe finds Orissa rock inscription
1837 Prinsep deciphers pillar inscriptions
1838 Burt visits
Khajuraho. Postans visits Girnar. Prinsep deciphers Kharosthi and is invalided home
1841 Blyth appointed curator of Asiatic Society’s museum
1842 Ellenborough proposes restoration of Somnath gates. Fergusson tours south India
1844 Gill begins copying Ajanta frescoes
1845 Everest starts North-East Himalaya series
1848 Hooker visits India. Cunningham finds Gandhara sculpture in Punjab
1851
Cunningham at Sanchi
1853 Cunningham first visits Mathura
1857 Indian Mutiny or National Uprising
1858 Demise of East India Company, exile of Moghul emperor
1861 Cunningham appointed Archaeological Surveyor
1862 Cunningham at Boddh Gaya
1865 Cunningham at Khajuraho
1867 Publication of Jerdon’s
Mammals of India
1872 Griffiths starts copying Ajanta frescoes
1873 Cunningham discovers Bharhut
1881 Cole restores Sanchi. Keith restores Gwalior
1897 Publication of Ajanta frescoes
1899 Curzon arrives as Viceroy